[SunkenCiv]

A simple charcoal scrawl may prove centuries of historical texts wrong

[HypatiaTaught]

So it is off by a few months..

Not bad for Pliny the younger for recording information Twenty years after the fact.

They had a better grasp of real news than our present fake news.

[Vinnie]

Well, that changes everything! /s

[SecondAmendment]

[Adder]

I seriously doubt anyone would misremember such a dramatic event. Details, maybe but not something so important as a date like this.

Most likely, is that the scrawl was done post eruption....should have been plenty of charcoal laying around.

[libertylover]

Yes, much later. The eruption occurred in 2016 while David Gilmore was telling people to “Run Like Hell” in Pompeii, but they didn’t. It was captured on this video near the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4AEHR1ANw

[Larry Lucido]

Never buy your volcano pills from the same place you buy your earthquake pills.